On January 19, 1879, Alcott and Franklin Benjamin Sanborn wrote a prospectus for a new school which they distributed to potentially interested people throughout the country.

Grigory Petrovich Danilevsky, who wrote historical and early SF novels and stories wrote Mertvec-ubiytsa ( Dead murderer ) in 1879.

In 1879, Zamenhof wrote the first grammar of the Yiddish language, which he published in part years later in the Yiddish magazine Lebn un visnshaft.

Of the 200 or so poems that he wrote, the most famous is probably " The Tay Bridge Disaster ", which recounts the events of the evening of 28 December 1879, when, during a severe gale, the Tay Rail Bridge near Dundee collapsed as a train was passing over it.

On 10 December 1879, Sullivan wrote a letter to his mother about the new opera, upon which he was hard at work in New York.

Edmond de Goncourt modeled his acrobat-mimes in his The Zemganno Brothers ( 1879 ) upon them ; J .- K. Huysmans ( whose Against Nature would become Dorian Gray's bible ) and his friend Léon Hennique wrote their pantomime Skeptical Pierrot ( 1881 ) after seeing them perform at the Folies Bergère.

" In December 1879, Crane wrote a poem about wanting a dog for Christmas.

In August 1879, The Engineering and Mining Journal wrote, " the Gaylord Coal Co. is building a new breaker in place of the one burned down last summer, and which is to prepare the coal from the old slope workings, with its tunnel to the seven foot seam, as well as the coal from its new shaft which was sunk by the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co., when it had it, to the Bennett seam.

Further works include editions with notes of Paley's Moral Philosophy ( 1852 ); Education as a Science ( 1879 ); Dissertations on leading philosophical topics ( 1903, mainly reprints of papers in Mind ); he collaborated with JS Mill and Grote in editing James Mill's Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind ( 1869 ), and assisted in editing Grote's Aristotle and Minor Works ; he also wrote a memoir prefixed to G Croom Robertson's Philosophical Remains ( 1894 ).

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov wrote only two orchestral works that rank as symphonic poems, his " musical tableau " Sadko ( 1867 – 92 ) and Skazka ( Legend, 1879 – 80 ), originally titled Baba-Yaga.

Some authorities hold that Walsingham himself wrote only the section between 1377 and 1392, but this view is criticised by James Gairdner in his Early chroniclers of Europe ( 1879 ).

In January 1879 Hicks Beach wrote to Bartle Frere:

His biography of Isaac Casaubon appeared in 1875 ; he also wrote about John Milton in Macmillan's " English Men of Letters " series in 1879.

In 1879, he wrote his first tango Cruz perigo.

Eastwood Lane ( May 22, 1879 – January 22, 1951 ) was an American composer who wrote piano suites and ballet music.

In December 1940 Reich wrote to Albert Einstein ( 1879 – 1955 ) saying he had a scientific discovery he wanted to discuss, and in January 1941 visited him in Princeton, where they talked for five hours.

Social credit is an economic philosophy developed by C. H. Douglas ( 1879 – 1952 ), a British engineer, who wrote a book by that name in 1924.

From 1879 to 1881, he was an assistant of T. Place, Professor of Physiology, during which time he wrote his thesis On Polarization of the Nerves, which gained him his doctoral degree, with honours, on 13 July 1883.

Ferdo Livadić ( 1799 – 1879 ) wrote Notturno in F-sharp minor for piano as early as 1822, which is, along with John Field's compositions under the same name, one of the earliest examples of that type of piano miniatures in general.

When Thomas Ewing Sherman, son of the famed Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman, expressed his desire to become a Jesuit to his father, the elder Sherman wrote a letter to McCloskey in 1879 telling him to dissuade his son from such a course of action.

After the Franco-Prussian War Lavisse studied the development of Prussia and wrote Etude sur l ' une des origines de la monarchie prussienne, ou la Marche de Brandebourg sous la dynastie ascanienne, which was his thesis for his doctor's degree, and Etudes sur l ' Histoire de la Prusse ( 1879 ).

At this period of his life he wrote Grégoire de Tours et Marius d ' Avenche ( 1872 ); Frédégaire, whose history, taken from original manuscripts, he published in 1885 ; a translation of a book of W. Junghans, Histoire critique des règnes de Childerich et de Chlodovech, with introduction and notes ( 1879 ); Études critiques sur les sources de l ' histoire carolingienne ( 1898, 1st part only published ); and Bibliographie de l ' histoire de France ( 1888 ).

It does not give any answer to when it was named ; however, the ship doctor and leader of the scientific part of the expedition, Emil Bessels, wrote his own book, Die amerikanische Nordpol-Expedition ( 1879 in German ).

Legend ( and Verdi's own " An Autobiographical Sketch " of 1879 ) has it that it was the words of the famous Va pensiero chorus of the Hebrew slaves that inspired him to write music again.

Their publishing company, Watch Tower, and official position magazine, The Watchtower, have asserted: " Ever since The Watchtower began to be published in July 1879 it has looked ahead into the future ... No, The Watchtower is no inspired prophet, but it follows and explains a Book of prophecy the predictions in which have proved to be unerring and unfailing till now.

The scene of Sigyn assisting Loki has been depicted on a number of paintings, including " Loke och Sigyn " ( 1850 ) by Nils Blommér, " Loke och Sigyn " ( 1863 ) by Mårten Eskil Winge, " Loki och Sigyn ( 1879 ) by Oscar Wergeland, and the illustration " Loki und Sigyn ; Hel mit dem Hunde Garm " ( 1883 ) by K. Ehrenberg.

The later String Quintet in F Major of 1879, contemporaneous with the Fifth and Sixth symphonies, has been frequently performed.

On March 17, 1879, the pair arranged that the Kid would act as an informant and testify against others involved in the Lincoln County War, and, it has been claimed, that in return the Kid would be " scot free with a pardon in pocket for all misdeeds.

The King's School also has a feeder preparatory school, founded in 1879.

Eight years later, in 1879, it was restored as France's national anthem, and has remained so ever since.

In Quebec City, Canada, the Old Quebec Funicular has been operating since 1879, connecting the Haute-Ville ( Upper Town ) to the Basse-Ville ( Lower Town ).

This approach has been a tradition since the foundation of Bulgaria in 1879, when large numbers of ethnic Bulgarians remained outside of the state.

The Indo-Fijian population has grown rapidly from the 61, 000 workers brought from India between 1879 and 1916 to work in the sugarcane fields, who later on ended up leasing / owning the sugar cane plantations.

In the United States, the national map-making function which had been shared by both the Army Corps of Engineers and the Department of the Interior migrated to the newly created United States Geological Survey in 1879, where it has remained since.

Among James's masterpieces are Daisy Miller ( 1879 ); in which the eponymous protagonist, the young and innocent American Daisy Miller, finds her values in conflict with European sophistication ; and The Portrait of a Lady ( 1881 ), in which a young American woman finds that her upbringing has ill prepared her against two scheming American expatriates during her travels in Europe.

Mandan has always been county seat, though during a period from 1878 to 1879, Mandan, and thus also the county seat, was known as Lincoln.

The City and Guilds of London Art School, one of the longest-established art colleges in the country, has been at Kennington Park Road since 1879.

It has been an open public space since the Wormwood Scrubs Act of 21 July 1879, and is recognised by Natural England as an important site of natural significance.

The formation of the surrounding townships of Rossville ( 1871 ) to the west, Menoken ( 1879 ) to the east, and Grove ( 1918 ) to the north has reduced the size of the township.

A special collection of Spurgeon's handwritten sermon notes and galley proofs from 1879 – 1891 resides at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama .< sup ></ sup > Spurgeon's College in London also has a small number of notes and proofs.

Henry County voters decided in the 1879 and 1885 court house site elections not to locate a court house on the public square, Henry has been Alabama's only county with three court houses at the same time.

After the first election in fall 1879, county government was set up in St. Johns, though it was moved again in 1880, to Springerville ; in 1882 St. Johns again became the county seat, and it has remained so ever since.

From a population of 400 in 1879, McGehee has grown into a community of about 5, 000 citizens.

The post office at this location was named Willow Springs from 1877 to 1879, then Otero from 1879 to 1880, and has been named Raton since 1880.

Since 1879, the Lynbrook Volunteer Fire Department has served Lynbrook.

Skull and Bones selects new members every spring as part of Yale University's " Tap Day ", and has done so since 1879.